The sun has got his hat on!, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:46pm

It has been a lovely week so far.  Please make sure children come to school with a water bottle and a hat to keep the sun off their head would be great. 

We have enjoyed using our outside area today.  

Science - Microhabitats, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:41pm

Our science work has led us outside to explore the mircohabitas in our school grounds.  The plants around the shed, the wooden sculptures in the bog garden, under tree stumps in our forest school area and the trunk of a tree.

We found a collection of worms, slugs, woodlice and beetles.  We have also gently collected some woodlice to find out what conditions they like to live in.  We places them in a container which was divided inot 4 different conditions, dark and dry, dark and damp, bright and dry, bright and damp.   The woodlice quickly moved into the dark area, there were more woodlice in the damp area than the dry area. 

Library Visit, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 26th Jun 2024 @ 11:32pm

We have enjoyed a lovely visit to the library to see Helen.  She read us 3 stories all about the environment.   We made flowers using recycled paper from old books and magazines.  We then were able to enjoy sharing books from the library with our friends. 

Path to Paris - Olympics, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 1st Jun 2024 @ 10:18am

Dont forget to log on to https://www.getset.co.uk/pathtoparis

Select Log activity

Type our code  2675

Select Lions

We are currently 2nd in the competition.  Can we win!

You can log all sorts of physical activity.  Out on your bike, walking the dog, going to the playground, swimming, football in the garden.

Summer 2 Subject Organiser, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 12:17pm

Please find below, and on our main class page, the subject organiser for the 2nd half of the Summer Term. 

Amazing Artists, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 11:55am

We have had a fabulous Arts week.  Our Continent was Africa and we explored a range of artists who are of African hertitage or take their inspiration from African culture. 

We have covered many types of art: paper and craft, painting, oil pastels, line drawing and printing.

We had an amazing dance workshop - there were some amazing movers and groovers in our street dance routine.  We worked together in pairs to have a go at learning the Waltz box step.  We had to use a lot of brain power.

D-Day Lamplighter, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 11:48am

The 6th of June 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when Allied forces mounted the largest amphibious invasion the world has ever witnessed. In 1944 Operation Overlord saw over 5,000 ships and landing craft set down more than 130,000 troops on five Normandy beaches.

The bravery and sacrifice of those people in securing the peace and freedom we enjoy today will be observed by the lighting of beacons around the United Kingdom, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and UK Overseas Territories

The light from the flame will represent the ‘light of peace’ that emerged from the darkness of war. 

We will not be in school on this important day so we have been passing around our own D Day lamp to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. 

English - Anthony Browne Stories, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 11:37am

We have enjoyed reading and listenign to lots of stories written by Anthony Browne.  We made a human graph when we voted for out favourite story.

Most of us enjoyed the story Willy the Champ.

MAD SCIENCE Assembly, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 11:33am

We enjoyed our visit from Mad Science.  Lots of fun and learning.  I'm sure we will all be trying the balloon and hair experiment!

Forms have gone home if you would like to be a part of the Mad Science after school club.

Enterprise, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 31st May 2024 @ 11:30am

We enjoyed making our Marshmallow and chocolate kebabs to sell in the quad for our Enterprise.

Alice in Wonderland Production, by Mr Kennedy

Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 2:49pm

What a show! Longton children had the pleasure of enjoying a fantastic production of Alice in Wonderland on Monday. 

Theatre Production, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 8:38pm

We have had a lovely first day back.  To welcome in the Summer term we enjoyed watching a theatre production of Alice in Wonderland.  It was fantastic and was a lovely start to week.  

Welcome Back - Summer Term, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 1:05am

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter Break.  Does anyone have any chocolate eggs left? 

Lets keep our fingers crossed for some warmer weather this term. 

Please find below and also on our main class page the subject organiser for this half term.

Any questions or queries please pop in and see us.  

Easter Bonnets, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 1:00am

WOW Lions, I love your creativity.  Thank you for making such amazing hats and sharing them with us.  I hope you all enjoyed your Easter Eggs. 

DT - Making Healthy Wraps, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 12:57am

We designed and made our own healthy wraps. 

DT - Food Tasting, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 12:53am

We had plenty of keen volunteers for some food tasting. 

Super Scientists, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 9:00pm

This week has been science week.

We have all taken part in a biscuit themed investigation.

Our question was:   Which biscuit is best for Miss Harrison to use to dunk in her tea?

We made predictions, disucssed how we were going to make it a fair test and recorded our results in a tally.

We used the biscuits - custard cream, digestive, bournon, nice and shortcake.  What would your predction be?

Different groups had different winners (the biscuit with the most dunks before droppin into the cup) but the majority of groups had the shortcake biscuit as the winner.

Jack and the Beanstalk, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 8:48pm

The Lion and the Zebra tribe performed their production of Jack and the Beanstalk to the school and their families this week.   There were all outstanding.  I'm sure you will agree, if you came to watch, the children shone brightly, from amazing acting and character voices to the fabulous singing.  Their enthusiasm was fantastic.  We are all very proud of them. 

Primary Engineer Celebration event, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 17th Mar 2024 @ 8:44pm

Our tippers were finished, we held our in school competition.  The winning tipper went to Preston College to the Primary Engineer Celebration event to complete against the tippers from other schools. 

The children were amazing, they spoke confidently and proudly about their tipper to the engineers.

World Book Day - Rockstars, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:59pm

We fully embaced the theme of rockstars.  Thank you for all your effort in supporting this. We followed and read the song lyrics to a number of songs as well as learning a few classic rock tunes.  Thank you to our group and solo performers who performed to us, you were brilliant. 

We enjoyed listening to the school story of the Battle between the odds and evens.  We loved adding our own section to the story and then hearing the end of it during our assembly at the end of the day.

The children all took home a book - a gift from Longton Primary school as well as the World Book Day voucher to use to redeem a world book day book or money off a book of their choice. 

We continued to write our fairy tales with a twist from our Michael Rosen workshop at the beginning of the week.  We will share some when they are finished. 

Our Final Tipper trucks, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:45pm

We are engineering superstars.  This week we completed our Primary Engineer Tipper construction project. 

We tested them down a ramp to see which one went the furthest and in the straightest line.  It was this tipper that would compete against other schools.   Congratualtions to  Joe, Josh and Ollie on their winning tipper.

Author and Illustrator visit, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:16pm

Can you believe it, Michael Rosen was in our classroom.  WOW!

We were very lucky to have Michael Rosen, Allen Fatimahran and Jasbinder Bilan visit our classroom this week.  They read us some alternative fairy stories and talked to us about how we could create our own fairy story with a twist.  We got to watch Allen illustrating the stories as they were read and then he showed us how to draw the frog prince.  We all had a go as he showed us step by step. 

Dance workshop, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:08pm

We were moving and grooving some some excellent tunes during our dance workshop.

Spring Term Projects, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 10th Mar 2024 @ 3:05pm

What an amazing tribe!  We had lots of fabulous projects this term to display for parents and to share with each other.  The children were very creative and linked lots of their projects to things we have been learning about in class. 

Well done Lions.

Maths - Division, by Mrs Catterall

Date: 21st Feb 2024 @ 7:01am

We are working on our 2 times table and dividing by 2 this week.

The children have been hands on with their counters; making arrays, grouping and sharing.